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This weekend, the Toronto Reference Library’s bespectacled old ladies of Saturday morning cartoon fame were replaced with another near-sighted crowd. Trading cat’s eye glasses for black horn rims, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival crowd, several thousand strong, dominated at least the first two floors of the behemoth library.

Photo by king_frankenstein.

This Saturday is the annual celebration of all things graphically novelistic: Free Comic Book Day. Free Comic Book Day is a very simple exercise: you go into your local comic book shop, and there are free comic books.

Popular Québécois cartoonist Michel Rabagliati will be making an appearance at the Lillian H. Smith Library (239 College Street) on March 15 at 5:00 p.m. to promote his latest book, Paul Goes Fishing. Rabagliati will participate in a Q&A session with The Beguiling’s Peter Birkemoe and sign books for loyal fans of the Paul series. And it's free!

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.

Torontoist is ending the year by naming our Heroes and Villains of 2007––the people, places, and things that we've either fallen head over heels in love with or developed uncontrollable rage towards over the past twelve months. Get your dose, starting Boxing Day and running into the new year, three times a day––sunrise, noon, and sunset.

Fans of the Colbert Report need no introduction to Tek Jansen. He's the intergalactic swashbuckling alter-ego of Stephen Colbert who is the subject of a sci-fi book and cartoon series called Alpha Squad 7.

The best things in life are free: long walks on the beach, make-outs in the dark and, for one day a year, comic books. Comics nerds around the globe will unite in spirit this Saturday to celebrate Free Comic Book Day, which means a trip to your local comic book store will result in a handful of free stuff and a general sense of well-being.

[Roxanne will be appearing at The Beguiling for Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 5, 12-3 p.m. Torontoist will also have some coverage of the event closer to the day.—Ed.]

[Roxanne will be appearing at The Beguiling for Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 5, 12-3 p.m. Be sure to check her out!—Ed.]

Tomorrow, May 6th, 2006, is worldwide Free Comic Book Day! That means pretty much what you think it means: fine comic book shops across the globe are dispensing comics to those who wander through their doors. The event, designed to celebrate indie comic stores, is now in it's fifth year.

) at the Paddock -a venue perhaps just a tad incongruously glam for Mister Bigfoot, but hey, it's sponsored by Toro -tonight at 9pm.

Sure, there are a thousand other things demanding your attention this evening, but how many of them are free and will only take up an hour of your time before you hit the club/gallery/spooktacular house party? The comic store The Beguiling (which just got a nod from NOW as the best in the city) is holding two impromptu signings this weekend featuring Charles Burns, Chip Kidd, and Chris Ware.

In closing, we especially love the line from the panel in the launch flyer: 'If he was a book, you could colour him.' Colour us there.